In these regular updates we will bring fresh content to Hive in the form of our game coding experiences; IBT is a developing PC game - the one to have future Crypto interactions.
Too many animations for one action!
Do you think that its a great idea to have a character shoot a bow at a target and that's that, simple? Well it isn't a good idea and not even remotely simple at all haha... but I guess once you start there is no looking back. There are quite a number of animations required just to give the character an affect that its reaching for a bow and arrow. Therefore you must have an animation for taking the bow out and pulling the arrow out, holding the bow, drawing the bow, drawing the bow string, shooting the arrow, reaching for another arrow blah blah blah!! Then you must make an arrow mesh, add velocity to the arrow, add hit damage to the target and....you know I give up...agghhhhhhh
Animation testing
Its okay to make an animation but then you have to test them after. With some tests in our early days our animations looked like someone had removed the bones from their arms or stuck them in a machine that twists you into a piece of licorice. So it is important that every frame is checked...time for you workout IBT Characters hahaha.
Sheathing-placing weapons after use
Another feature we are after is making it look like the character is actually reaching for a weapon or tool of some type. This gives the game a little more detail and polishes it up a bit too. It does require some blueprints/coding but overall its worth it, what do you think?
Extra Meshes Added
The terrain does look good in IBT but we are looking for a little more variety still. We decided to add a few more Quandong tree shapes with some added branches and fruit but at the same time kept memory usage and textures as low as possible to save performance.
Well, that's it for this week, time to get back to coding, sorry for the delay in posting this week and not responding to comments, I do read them, but sometimes not in a position to upvote or reply easily..Cheers though it's good to know people are following along and sharing experiences and feelings here on the Hive chain.
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